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Son of Woman is a Postcolonial Kenyan crime fiction novel by Charles Mangua, which was first published in 1971 in Nairobi, Kenya.In a country struggling to reclaim identity, Mangua creates a character that is "returning to a homeland….using an available asset to begin a new career;" a character and story that resonates with the larger population.
The Life of an Amorous Woman introduces the first-person narrator, and the main character is an old woman who reflects on her past in the form of a confession addressed to those who are willing to listen. [5] She is successively wife, court lady, courtesan, priest's concubine, mistress of a feudal lord, and streetwalker.
The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.. The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.
The novel is the first of a seven-book saga about the fortunes of a retail empire and the machinations of the business elite across three generations. The series, featuring Emma Harte and her family also includes Hold The Dream, To Be The Best, Emma's Secret, Unexpected Blessings, Just Rewards and Breaking the Rules.
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, Susan Griffin (1979) Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (1979) Women and Household Labor, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, ed. (1979)
Aidoo stated in a 1993 interview that "the title Changes addresses the issue of a woman's life, her loves, career and so on and how they change." [2] Aidoo also revealed that the subtitle "A Love Story" is a compromise with her publisher – originally the subtitle was "A New Tail to an Old Tail." [2]
I Am A Woman is a book that basically all homosexual readers, both men and women, will enjoy reading." [5] A 1969 retrospective of lesbian paperback fiction called I Am A Woman a "blockbuster" that heaps praise on the character of Beebo Brinker, "who carries off a barroom seduction scene that is surely a classic". [6]
In “Amahal and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love,” Lorrie Moore writes about a breakup between the main character, Trudy, and her boyfriend, Moss. She writes the story in second person, along with the majority of her other stories, so that the reader can connect with the characters on a personal level.